The 5th Grade Word Challenge

OK. You're about to go off to Big School. We used Microsoft Word for years now - but it's a program with a lot going on. We want to make sure you've got the Word skills you need to wow your teachers in Middle School, High School, and beyond.

The Word Challenge is a way to reinforce these skills - kind of a self check.

Good luck.

First, you'll need some text to play with. You'll find your document at the top of your class folder.

Now you're ready to get to work:

Create a heading at the top of the paper. (name, date, subject.) (5)

Create a title. Center the title. Make it 18 point Helvetica. Make it bold. (5)

Format your paragraphs. (5)

12 point Times

Indent your paragraphs.

Make them double-spaced.

Insert two photos of planets. Include a Caption. Group the Picture and Caption. (5)

After the description of the Solar System, create a bullet list of the planets. (5)

Using the draw tools in Word, create a diagram showing the distance from the Sun to the Earth and to Jupiter. (10)

Create a graph showing the differences in sizes of the Earth, Venus, and Mars. (10)

Create a table showing Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune and their diameters. (10)

Use a footer to add page numbers. (5)

Make the quotation (by Tyson) italic and bring in the margins on both sides to make it stand out. (5)

Right after Neil deGrasse Tyson's name, create a footnote telling your reader that he is the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York. (5)

To prepare for your paper you read a great book, All About the Solar System, by Henrietta Smith. Looks like the book was published by Harcourt Press in New York in 2013. Use the bibliography features to create a citation in perfect MLA style. Create a Page Break and put in on this new page. (10)

Create a new page break. Take your picture using Photo Booth and bring it into this page. Write a brief About the Author. (5)